Steve writes:
"I learned early in life that if a canoe is tipping to one side, you
don't lean out the other, you drop to the bottom center, lower your
center of gravity. Why is that so hard in sociopolitical contexts?
Unless you want to tip into the drink!”
Except that if we tip it over, we can swim over to that jet boat that
is a hundred meters away. (See the thread on the 10 meter diving
platform.)
I think I get that part.... I grew up with a fascination with
post-apocalyptic worlds and sci-fi themes of transcendence. I still
have a soft spot for it. We have in our local circle (but surely not on
this list) a near-inner circle Singularian, the futurist/author Steven
Kotler: http://diamandis.com/abundance
I put more stock in complexity thinking than exponential thinking.
Your logic is the only hope I hold out for this Trumpian regime. He is
a loose cannon who is in the process of clearing the deck of our ship of
state. I just hope he manages to do it without snapping off the masts
and the wheelhouse, and then careens overboard before he sinks the
entire ship, rats and all. Maybe there IS an awesome, high-tech
ship-of-state or ship-of-society just over the horizon or beyond the fog
of culture-wars ready to sweep us up and jet us off into some
unspecified utopian future, but I'm not seeing it.
I also outgrew utopian fantasies when I realized they were a thin
disguise for a dystopia. I'm still fascinated with the dual of
utopia/dystopia, but I'm not easily taken in by the idea that when you
can't react fast enough *already* to the things appearing on the road in
your headlights, that you should just *drive faster*.
- Steve
Marcus
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